One that is willing to tell the truth that millions of Americans have been tragically misled by former President Trump, who continues to this day to use language that he knows provoked violence on January 6.”Ĭheney said she has heard about people who downplay the Jan. She called for a Republican Party “that puts forward our ideals and our policies based on substance, one that is willing to reject the former president’s lies. The crowd greeted her with polite applause and there were no protesters outside the event. Loeb School of Communications’ First Amendment Awards event at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester. “This nation needs a Republican Party that is based on truth,” she told the crowd at the Nackey S.
6 insurrection as an existential fight for the Republican Party and for democracy itself. Cheney, a daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has framed Trump and the Jan. Her fierce criticism of Trump and her insistence that Congress investigate the Capitol attack resulted in her being removed from her position as GOP conference chair and led to a serious primary challenge back home. Capitol building and interrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory in a futile bid to keep Trump in office.
Hundreds of Trump’s supporters violently pushed past police, broke into the U.S. There is no middle ground.”Ĭheney was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump on a charge of inciting the Jan. “There is no gray area when it comes to that question, when it comes to this moment. “Will we put duty to our oath above partisan politics or will we look away from the danger and the threat, embrace the lies and enable the liar?” Cheney asked, speaking at a First Amendment event in New Hampshire. 6 Capitol insurrection, said the challenge now is whether citizens will do their duty and “defend the Constitution and stand for truth.” Liz Cheney of Wyoming said Tuesday that former President Donald Trump is at war “with the rule of law and the Constitution” and that GOP lawmakers who sit by silently are aiding his efforts.Ĭheney, a Trump critic who is vice chair of a congressional committee investigating the Jan.
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